Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 798fb23787ea04e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-06-17 00:24:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-29
MD5: 809038088ba9a4a1eabc7a470e36b7a3 SHA-1: 68efbba7d6f7dc5da6c2b30cd449da3ddc91de4c SHA-256: 798fb23787ea04e730b722065f3ab0b9490dd186a162b7a8f34b675c7fa44e41
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=hunter+call+of+the+wild+bighorn+sheep PDF link annotation
    • http://topopentertainment.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a5d345768ce---lopewetomite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.amiunaorchestra.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608fdc9b396bb---66735391961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://purebodycare.courses/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/jrslmvhcb8likdjdsas34m65b8/18131386186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lpcj2v1r2l45p7inqkoimdqqv0/94224634525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://a2designbg.com/userfiles/file/tuvovoriralexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vimbark.sk/editor_uploads/files/96841797724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://la-roofers.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b669d977984---4553126696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pensacolahigh1964.com/clients/1/1d/1d652d7f5bd5fd2f3712913460b20393/File/zirikava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.asahinadigital.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/npedhg75oql3aue1ijgopnh2ho/ritivavuxofojadudutowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metzpaintings.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606da32b90dd9---82039136163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vangphugia.com/userfiles/file/fifade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clumba-indoor.ru/files/files/finefiset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gn1ktmtv0r5qb1s6iubd0k6m3p/99544128623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.emmabowman.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/499b4e4ce94e0afc65e23a77c07e8ba9/5639420463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://g3az.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b20725881a6---90416900796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ljhalls.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2c7c2dcfcfd3a6bf01ba96ee7aa02e2c/96328098781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lauricedale.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608f2c1394d3d---16925339486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f00c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF00C 5612 bytes
SHA-256: 20fd0c7aa3eeec0b98d5dfcd3d7e849c01d224c0cfde645ae519b24bf1615dc2
font_01_sfnt_off00010327.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10327 10516 bytes
SHA-256: f444740f2cf4b402fbbe4b500c156ed9facc0469b7ee512905a7e27208e27795